Things ARE getting done.

Firstly, I apologize for anyone who has noticed my posting negligence... there has been a lot of tedious hard work being done and it doesn't particularly look like anything is getting done... but here I go anyhow:


This is what block sanding looks like...


This is what serious feathering looks like when there are a couple extra layers...


This is what a ceiling should look like!


This is what Maureen looks like after she feels like she's acomplished something!


This is what she accomplished!!
Notice that the floor is particualrly clean and the extrraneous wires behind the dash are gone.

Legitamate work is getting done here, we are close to... (dare I say it??) painting time... dun dun dun.

We took the insulation off the ceiling and found another enemy! To be Fixed!!

More Por-15 evidence!

Primer, De-rusting, Sanding

Daniel doing some rust preventing...

Brian cutting out some rust...

Robin stripping the bonnet...

Maureen and Robin looking cute, sanding and stripping...

The bed: all primered!!!

Photos!

The bed all stripped (the second time) and ready for a good primer-in'

Here the paint was full of flaws and was crackling, so I stripped it!

This is the filler we were using on the tailgate (the one where we learned a lot) ...doesn't it look like toothpaste?

This is all the paint. Doesn't look like much, does it?.   Should go a long way.

More Stripping, and a little Filling

Yesterday we finished stripping the rest of the truck bed and exposed more hidden surface rust, so the bed is now in better condition for painting than it was before I P-15ed it the first time, we also decided that we will not be por-15ing the entire bed. Instead we will be using self-etching primer then a high-fill primer before painting over it with the final "auto air colors."

In addition we used some metal-filler (not bond-o)on the tailgate which had several nicks and dings on it. It took us some time to figure out what the proper proportion of filler to hardener was, but we finally figured it out [just a smidge of hardener to a 3x2" section of filler] and sanded it smooth. It turned out pretty well for our large learning curve. Next, we used our high-fill primer and made it look excellent! Don't worry, there will be plenty of other opportunities to show the filler process later when I will have a camera.

I am feeling excited about preparing to paint! Blocksanding and priming: watch out! here we come!